2013 CNYCSS ANNUAL CONFERENCE-Social Studies: The Pathway to Success with Common Core

Registration

CURRENT MEMBERS – $60.00

Includes breakfast and lunch. SPECIAL NOTE: If you became a member with your registration last October, you must renew your membership separately from registering for the Conference. You will also need to update your Contact Information when you renew.

Exhibitor – $150.00

FULL-TIME STUDENTS – $30.00

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LATE-REGISTRATION MEMBERS – $70.00

If you are registering past the date of OCTOBER 10, 2011 then you will need to pay an additional fee of $10.00. If you are registering late is is preferred that you use the online payment methods and that you print out confirmation of your registration payment and bring this to the Conference Registration desk.

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Dr. Ward, often quoted and interviewed by NPR, the Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, the Associated Press and numerous others, will look at how social communication increases productivity, saves money and time, and improves engagement and satisfaction. Most importantly for educators, he explains how, when done correctly, this combination enhances the quality and efficiency of teaching, research, learning, communicating, collaborating and creating.

9:40 Update on S.E.D.

10:00-10:50 A.M. SESSION A BREAKOUTS

A1: American Partisan Politics of the 1790sThomas Barden,US History Teacher, Marcus Whitman H.S., Rushville, NY, Former Adjunct Professor of History, SUNY GeneseoThe decade of George Washington's Presidency also gave us the start of our partisan politics. This mirrored not just the political theory differences our leaders had, but also the advent of "dirty" American politics. Although Washington sought to prevent this from happening, even he could not do so. After examining the 1790s we find they do not look very different from the 2000s.

A2: Brief Trip to Vietnam and CambodiaChuck Coon taught and was an administrator for 34 years in Baldwinsville, followed by teaching in retirement at OCC, SUNY Oswego and SUNY Cortland. He has presented for NYSCSS, CNYCSS, Elderhostel and Oasis.The presenter will comment on his observations on his trip to Vietnam and Cambodia in January 2013. He visited Saigon, the tomb of Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City, the so-called "Hanoi Hilton" as well as remnants of French Indochina, Siem Reap, Hindu & Buddhist temples dating back 800 years including Angkor Wat and Angkor Tom. Finally, the visit included the notorious "killing fields" of the 1970s & 80s, a visit to a Cambodian High School and 8 days on the Mekong River.

A3: Between Tawhid and History: Explaining Islamic DiversityHoward Eissenstat, St. Lawrence UniversityThe ideal of unity is central to much of Islamic thought: one God, one community of believers, one faith. This reality does not diminish the intellectual challenge of believers and schools of Islam alike. The presentation aims to offer a framework for understanding the relationship between Islamic norms and Muslim practice, with the goal of facilitating more sophisticated conversations about one of the world's great religions.

Yes! Fiction IS part of the common core when students use nonfiction to develop understanding, deep learning, and meaningful connections. Participants will gain access to four multidisciplinary units that incorporate common core shifts. Units are based on Laurie Halse Anderson'sFever 1793,L.M. Elliot'sGive Me Liberty,and Margaret Peterson Haddix'sUprising,in addition to our Historical Fiction Literature Circle Unit. Primary Source documents, Web 2.0 student work, and more will be covered.

11:00-11:50 A.M. SESSION B BREAKOUTS

B1: Political Violence in Central Africa: Africa's World War in Historical ContextMatthew Carotenuto, St. Lawrence UniversityFromGenocide in Rwanda to the violence gripping the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, much of central Africa has been historically characterized as a region of endemic warfare. This talk will distill some of the complex and multi-national dimensions of political violence in central Africa from the 1990s to present--focusing on how historians have come to view this period as "Africa's World-War."

B2: The Confederate South: Myths and Realities

Dr. Douglas Egerton, Le Moyne CollegeThis presentation counters the pervasive myth that the Civil War was due to sectional conflicts over tariffs and states' rights. Modern Confederate apologists point out that most Southern whites did not own slaves and now argue that African-Americans also fought for the Confederacy. They ignore the fact that the men who voted for secession in special state conven- tions were, on average, 86 percent slaveholding planters and that the South also had the first military draft in our Hemisphere.

B3: The George Washington Teacher’s Summer InstituteMary Duffin, retired Jamesville-Dewitt Educator & Erica Martin, Chittenango M.S. EducatorThe CNYCSS team of Duffin and Martin will report on the George Washington Teacher's Institute, and the historical information and materials the Institute provides. They will model how this material can be used in Elementary and Middle School classrooms, and how they relate to Common Core. In an age hungry for real heroes, the material helps students understand Washington's description as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."

B4: Getting Students Involved inNational History DayFayetteville-Manlius Educators Mary Anne Silvernail and Paul MuenchOur presenters share their experiences with History Day as an extremely successful extra- curricular activity at FM High School. In the past four years, this activity has produced numerous winners at the Regional and State levels, and has sent two entrants to represent New York State in the National Competition. Find out how you can involve your students in this excellent experience, while developing historical research and presentation skills as 21st century learners.

NOON - 1:25 pm LUNCH AND VENDORS

1:30-2:20 P.M. SESSION C BREAKOUTS

C1: The Algerian War: How, What and Why We Should Teach About ItJohn W. Langdon, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, LeMoyne CollegeThe Algerian War of Independence from France (1954-1962) was big news 55 years ago, yet is seldom mentioned today. The issues raised, however, are back with us. It was a 1950s version "Arab Spring" complete with debates about torture, terrorism, and Islamist fundamentalism. Studying this conflict helps students understand the roots of these contemporary concerns.

C2: Rethinking Reconstruction: America’s First Progressive EraDr. Douglas Egerton, LeMoyne CollegeThis presentation reflects on the positive impact that Reconstruction reforms had on the North and New York State. Three times between 1860 and 1868, white New Yorkers in popular referendums and in the Assembly, defeated attempts to remove the $250 property qualification imposed only on black voters. Working-class black Syracusans finally got the vote with the 1870 ratification of the 15th Amendment.

C3: Women in the U.S. Today: Comparing Perception to RealityDr. Sally Roesch Wagner, Executive Director of theMatilda Joslyn Gage Foundationand Members of the Girl Ambassadors for Human Rights TeamThe presenters will discuss their work exploring the position of women in the United States as compared to the condition of women internationally. The results are surprising. While the perception is that we lead the world in women's rights, the reality is that women in the U.S. fall far below much of the world in important areas.

C4: The Year That Was: Highlights of the 2012-2013 Supreme Court TermDr. Keith J. Bybee, Syracuse University College of Law/Maxwell School-Citizenship & Public AffairsThe presenter will follow up to last year's introduction to the Roberts’ Court, with an analysis of the decisions rendered by the Supreme Court which began on the first Monday in October 2012 and concluded with a quartet of June decision days applauded and denounced by people on all sides of the political divide.